| Still Life with Ham | |
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| Artist | Philippe Rousseau |
| Year | c. 1870s |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73 cm× 92.1 cm(29 in× 36.3 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
Still Life with Ham is a 1870s still life painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a number of items set on a table. The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]
The painting is intricately and intimately detailed; not only did Rousseau render a ham (described as "succulent" by one source) [1] and a fully set table, he also included an issue of Le Figaro (a prominent French newspaper) addressed to his home. The work is highly contemporaneous to the early 1870s. [1]
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